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Glueck took these issues to Orlinsky but, rather than opening up the committee to the additional members, it resulted in a break between the two men; Orlinsky tendered his resignation: It is clear that you [Glueck] feel that my presence on the Committee constitutes something of an obstacle to achieving the maximum success that we hope it will be. Accordingly, I should like to resign from the Committee. 266 Glueck, however, rejected the resignation and persuaded Orlinsky to stay on. 267 While the back-and-forth correspondence is useful for gaining insight into the debate over the scrolls at HUC-JIR, it did not produce an international conference. Dinur was not particularly pleased with HUC-JIR’s decision to move ahead with the symposium and continued, behind the scenes, to push to have the conference further delayed or cancelled. 268 To shore up its position, HUC-JIR turned to the Union Theological Seminary (UTS) in New York City as a cosponsor with the intention that faculty member Muilenberg would agree to join the organizing committee. The idea was for a three-day international conference, ideally alternating between the two institutions’ campuses. 269 It seems that Glueck hoped that a joint conference in New York could attract greater participation than if held in Cincinnati. UTS responded positively but, because of Dinur’s continued pushing, a date conflict with the Congress of Orientalists, 270 and the inability of certain invitees to attend, Glueck gave up, and the conference was cancelled. 271 A core group of scholars including Albright, Solomon Zeitlin, Edward Yechezkel Kutscher, and Patrick Skehan eventually met in Philadelphia on 20 May 1957 to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the scrolls’ discovery and the first jubilee of Dropsie College. 272 Orlinsky gave the opening address, acknowledging that it had been hoped that the conference at HUC-JIR could have taken place and providing details of some of the planning. The address also provides a wonderful window on Orlinsky’s sense of humor. In opening the conference he remarked: The Dead Sea Scrolls, as you all know, are so called because they are not dead, they do not come from the sea, and not every one of the documents is a scroll. Otherwise the title is correct... The year 1957 marking a decade since the discovery of the Scrolls, provides an opportune time to assess with greater confidence the significance of these documents and perhaps to reach a greater consensus of opinion. It is not secret at all that the Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion had planned an international symposium on the Dead Sea Scrolls, to be held in the New York School in September of this year. Competent scholars the world over were to be invited, and panel discussions held in such specific and significant 42 • American Jewish Archives Journal
areas as archaeology, linguistics, biblical textual criticism, rabbinic analysis, palaeography, messianism, and the “teacher of Righteousness.” 273 For various reasons, this grand symposium had to be cancelled.… This afternoon’s Symposium [at Dropsie College] is the first in the world in which the Scrolls will be discussed from A to Z, beginning with Prof. Albright and ending with Prof. Zeitlin. 274 The conference could have brought HUC-JIR tremendous attention, but it was not to be. 275 At the very least, the effort to bring it about highlights Glueck’s interest in the scrolls and his attempt to put the College at the forefront of their scholarship. In truth, since Jewish scholars were kept from the editorial team for the documents found in Cave 4, the faculty could not have access to the material and so was not involved directly in editing and studying the manuscripts. As early as 1956 or 1957 Sandmel had concerns about access to the unpublished materials: Certain people working in the Scrolls, however, have been able to inform me that John [the Baptist] when a youth belonged to the Essenes; one scholar even suggested that the Essenes may have adopted John when he was a boy. Now this may be only speculation—or it may be based, as we have occasionally [been] assured in the past, on Scrolls materials which some have seen but which have not been published yet!” 276 The conference could have generated an opportunity for a Jewish institution and its scholars to participate in the process of studying the material, despite the issue of access. Norman Golb Cincinnati, May 1962 (©The American Israelite, reprinted with permission) Norman Golb (b. 1928) At the same time as the conference plans were coming undone, Glueck made a move to hire a replacement for Isaiah Sonne. In his place he hired Norman Golb, who taught at the College in Cincinnati from 1958 until 1963, when he took up an appointment at the University of Chicago, where he continues to teach. According to Golb the two men met in Israel in 1956 while Golb was a Warburg fellow at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. 277 Golb earned his doctorate with Albright at Johns Hopkins in 1954 with a dissertation titled, “The Cairo Damascus Covenant and Karaite Literature.” During 1957–1958 he served as visiting lecturer in Hebrew and Semitic studies at the University of Wisconsin. During that time he published his first academic articles on the scrolls. The Optimistic, Even with the Negatives: HUC-JIR and the Dead Sea Scrolls, 1948–1993 • 43
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